Notice of Recent Publications [pp. 443-477]

Notices of Recent Publications.
that transparency and vivacity by which the French contrive to lend a
charm even to such discussions.
Biblical Theology of the New Testament. By Christian Friedrich
Schmid, D.D., late Professor of Theology' Tubingen. Translated
from the fourth German edition, edited by C. Weizaker, D.D.,
by G. H.Venables. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. NewYork: Scribner,
Welford & Co. 1870.
Here we find another happy instance of the increasing tendency we
have already noted to draw theology directly from the Holy Oracles.
The late productions of Drs. Thompson, Van Oosterzee, Smeaton and
others, are lifting exegetical theology to new prominence, and orthodoxy is all the gainer by this process. This work of Dr. Schmid is a
good instance of the working of German theologians in this direction,
and of its salutary effects. The exhaustive nature of German research
and thinking are seen here, and it serves to bring all the scattered
rays of scriptural teachings to one bright focus of evangelical and
saving truth. This work, like that of Prof. Smeaton just noticed, is
in its way a thesaurus, and an analysis of the doctrinal teachings of the
New Testament, which must be invaluable to ministers, theologians,
and all who would search the Scriptures, and learn what is truth,
and life, and salvation from Him who is the way, the truth, and the life.
They are standard works.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews. By Frank Delitzsch D.D.,
Professor of Theology, Leipsig. Translated from the German by
Thomas L. Kingsbury, M.A. Vol. II. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark.
New York: Scribner, Welford & Co. 1870.
We have not seen the first volume of this great work. But the
exhaustive learning, logic, exegetical tact, and deep spiritual insight
so conspicuous in that before us, abundantly assure us of the great
value of both. In the close of this volume are some supplementary
dissertations, in one of which he strenuously maintains that not Paul,
but Luke is the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and in another,
that the scriptural doctrine of Christ's death is that of a true and
proper satisfaction to Divine justice. He ably and conclusively controverts the following positions advanced by Hofman. "1. The death
of Jesus was not the punishment of the sin of man. 2. Satisfaction is
not made thereby to the wrath of God. 3. Christ did not suffer in the
place of man. 4. Our reconciliation with God does not consist in the
fact, either that our sin was correspondingly punished in Jesus' death,
or that it was atoned for by Jesus' ethical action in his sufferings. I
am convinced that all these negations would be condemned by the
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